Notebook Platforms

AMD has officially released the 2010 Mainstream and Ultrathin notebook platforms.

The Mainstream Platform features the new standard-voltage CPUs including quad-, triple-, and dual-core Phenom II chips, dual-core Athons II and Turions II, and a single-core V Series model. On the other side, the Ultrathin Platform for small and thin-and-light laptops uses dual-core Turion II Neo and Athlon II Neo, as well as single-core Athon II Neo and V Series CPUs, all with lower voltages when compared to the mainstream counterparts.

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VIA Technologies has announced the new VIA VX900 media system processor (MSP), a chip that will be included in VIA Nano 3000 CPU-based laptops and netbooks in order to support playback of online HD videos.

The VIA VX900 includes ChromotionHD 2.0 video engine providing hardware acceleration of the H.264 codec used in today’s online HD video streaming services. According to the chip maker, the VX900 “brings crisp, smooth 1080p HD video content to life without hogging key system resources or resorting to an additional third party decoder”.

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Intel plans to announce its next generation laptop platform, named “Huron River”, in the first quarter of 2011, according to Digitimes’ sources from motherboard and notebook makers.

The “Huron River” platform reportedly includes “Sandy Bridge” processors, a 6-series chipset “Cougar Point”, and wireless modules codenamed “Rainbow Peak” and “Taylor Peak”.

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Mobile Internet devices, tablets and netbooks based on the next-gen NVIDIA Tegra platform will be rolled out in the first half of 2010, a company executive said last week.

According to Michael Hara, senior vice president of investor relations at Nvidia, the chip maker will also launch the next-generation Ion graphics processor in the first half of next year.

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AMD today launched Congo, its second generation AMD platform for small, light and affordable notebooks.

The Second Generation AMD Ultrathin Platform, a successor of the Yukon, includes dual core AMD CPUs – the Athlon Neo X2 L325 at 1.5GHz and the Turion Neo X2 L625 at 1.6GHz, both with 1MB of L2 cache and a power consumption of 18W. The platform also features the 15W single core 1.6GHz Athlon Neo MV-40 and Sempron 210U at 1.5GHz, with 512KB and 256KB of L2 cache respectively.

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has announced the 2009 AMD Mainstream Notebook Platform “Tigris”, featuring new processors, a new integrated graphics chip, and improved multimedia technologies.

The platform includes next-gen AMD Turion II Ultra, Turion II, and Athlon II dual core mobile processors, with clock speeds ranging from 2GHz to 2.6GHz, BUS speed of 3,200MHz or 3,600MHz, and 1MB or 2MB of L2 cache, depending on model. The chips are based on 45nm production technology, replacing older 65nm parts. The new Athlons and Turions have a power consumption of 35W, and support for 64-bit computing and virtualization.

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AMD will showcase a new mainstream notebook platform called Tigris at the upcoming 2009 Computex Show in Taipei, Chinese Commercial Times reports.

The Tigris includes a 45-nanometer dual-core “Caspian” processor and the RS880M chipset.

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